John Jacob Astor Quotes

If you wish a thing done, get some one to do it for you; but if you wish it done well, do it yourself.

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• Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Louisiana
  • Racists

• I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Work
  • Home
  • View

• It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Bad
  • End

• It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Find
  • Difficult
  • Duty

• I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • Power
  • City

• With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Character
  • Amazing
  • Myself

• America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • America
  • Political
  • Struggle

• Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Dog

• Democrats cannot conceive of 'hate speech' towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Hate
  • Eyes

• That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • High
  • Feeling

• How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Die
  • Question

• I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

  

  Lauren Potter
  • People
  • Help
  • Independent

• I don't want to be in the spotlight, ever! I don't know why I got in this profession!

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Why

• My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Mother

• The NFL cares about one thing, and that's the NFL. That's the bottom line.

  

  Doug Baldwin

• Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Band
  • Beginning

• Our facial skins are thin with large pores; our back skins are thicker with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier. And yet, it's the same skin, no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Small

• I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

  

  Kathy Ireland

• Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • God
  • She
  • Teacher

• What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Imagination
  • Consciousness

• Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it's good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Drama

• I'm just a wee, chubby boy that happens to sing songs.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Boy
  • Songs

• If you wish a thing done, get some one to do it for you; but if you wish it done well, do it yourself.

  

  John Jacob Astor
  • Do It